❤️ California. Grew up in Cupertino. Became an earth scientist at Stanford University. Settled in the Central Valley. Adding my two cents on X, Don Nelson

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🧵 The climate change hysteria fad has come and gone. However, the 1000-year-old, Jeffrey Pine tree stumps remain in the West Walker River in Mono County, in eastern California. These stumps are direct evidence of severe, natural climate change that produced 100-year “mega droughts” during the Medieval Warm Period.
Scott Adams explores possible reasons why the climate change hysteria has suddenly vanished. • It was funded by billionaires for profit, but funding dried up • AI industry's energy needs overshadow climate concerns • Greta Thunberg's shift to other causes undermines her climate focus • Europe's financial woes reveal climate as a "luxury belief" • All data is fake Which do you think is most likely? @scottadamssays
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Happy Friday! Have a nice day!
Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
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Did everyone in LA just get hit with a second mortgage by LADWP or is it just me?! 😭⚡️ @LADWP
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A great piece. The shuttered refineries in CA need to be back online - but Gavin Newsom would rather point fingers and blame than actually do something to help. What The Trump Administration Can Do Right Now To Lower Gas Prices thefederalist.com/2026/09/23…
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UN escalator helps @CAgovernor Newsom defeat gravity at UN conference this week. It wasn’t too long ago when gravity defeated Newsom when he was playing little kids basketball 🏀 during a visit to China 🇨🇳.
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The United Nations escalator works just fine for Gavin Newscum.
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Happy Dolly Parton Day! 9 / 2 5
When Dolly Parton approached Robert Plant for permission to record her version of “Stairway to Heaven,” she reportedly worried about how he would react. Instead, Plant’s response was wonderfully simple: “Of course you can, you’re Dolly Parton.” And somehow, that feels like the perfect answer. Dolly didn’t try to copy Led Zeppelin — she took one of rock’s most iconic songs and made it unmistakably her own, adding a touch of country, gospel, and her unmistakable voice. Sometimes, a legend recognizing another legend is all the permission you need.
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𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗨𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 100-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 video: piped.video/uINEkyVUAN4?si=X_8-… article: recordnet.com/story/news/env… #climate #uncertainty #risk #certainty
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Tree rings show more fires during the heat and droughts of the Medieval Warm Period.
Giant sequoia tree 🌲 rings show frequent surface fires 🔥 were the typical pattern of occurrence over the last 2000 years. The pattern changed after about 1860 due to: ▪️intensive sheep grazing - less fuel ▪️less fires set by Native Americans ▪️suppression of fires by government agencies New sequoia trees survive better in periods with fire cycles. In the 1900’s, there was a major failure in giant sequoia reproduction. Also, 4 of 5 groves studied showed fires occurred most frequently during the heat and droughts of the Medieval Warm Period from 800 - 1300. nps.gov/seki/learn/nature/gi…
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Giant sequoia tree 🌲 rings show frequent surface fires 🔥 were the typical pattern of occurrence over the last 2000 years. The pattern changed after about 1860 due to: ▪️intensive sheep grazing - less fuel ▪️less fires set by Native Americans ▪️suppression of fires by government agencies New sequoia trees survive better in periods with fire cycles. In the 1900’s, there was a major failure in giant sequoia reproduction. Also, 4 of 5 groves studied showed fires occurred most frequently during the heat and droughts of the Medieval Warm Period from 800 - 1300. nps.gov/seki/learn/nature/gi…
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Just another normal day kicking off in San Francisco as night becomes day and people, including ‘harm reduction’ NGO people, fall into their daily routines.
🎥September 25 2026 6:25am Location This Morning Two People Overdosed in Front of Glide Memorial Church, and only 1 person survived. Part of this is the result of Glide Memorial Church passing out Harm reduction supplies pipes needles foil and etc for people to get high on. They’re enabling people addiction so what did they expect now they have death at the front door.
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🧵🪡 Fires 🔥 continue at Moss Landing lithium ion battery storage facility. Monterey County established dashboard to track wave of lawsuits. Hazardous ⚠️ heavy metal fallout mapped across environmentally sensitive estuary wetlands.
Nearly two years after lithium batteries went up in flames at the Moss Landing Power Plant, risks remain inside the plant’s energy storage facility for flareups and future fires possibly igniting, firefighters said. North Monterey County Firefighters acknowledged that last week's fire "felt like Groundhog Day" for many people. Story: kron4.com/news/california/fi…
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🧵🪡 Fires 🔥 continue at Moss Landing lithium ion battery storage facility. Monterey County established dashboard to track wave of lawsuits. Hazardous ⚠️ heavy metal fallout mapped across environmentally sensitive estuary wetlands.
Nearly two years after lithium batteries went up in flames at the Moss Landing Power Plant, risks remain inside the plant’s energy storage facility for flareups and future fires possibly igniting, firefighters said. North Monterey County Firefighters acknowledged that last week's fire "felt like Groundhog Day" for many people. Story: kron4.com/news/california/fi…
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𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙’𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚, 𝙩𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 – 𝙬𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙩 Contour maps show how metals from the Moss Landing battery fire settled across nearby wetlands. Nickel, manganese and cobalt were found in surface soils. 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲: theconversation.com/when-the…
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Time for Monterey County to update the dashboard after the latest battery plant fire 🔥at Moss Landing. cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/new…
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Cowabunga! 🏄‍♂️
A new surf destination is coming to west Placer. 🏄 The Placer County Planning Commission approved plans for the Alchemy Surf Resort, a recreational and hospitality destination planned within Placer One. Plans include a 5-acre surf lagoon, 100-room hotel, bungalows, dining, an action sports hub and more. The developer is targeting a spring 2027 groundbreaking. Link 👇
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Portland ecological preserve. Apparently, this area is exempt from septic 💩 system permit requirements.
A walk-through a homeless camp in a protected green space and waterway in Portland, Oregon.
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Gavin Newsom bragging in 2022 about directing $54 billion of taxpayer dollars 💰toward fighting climate change. Demonstration of @CAgovernor Newsom’s impact on reducing rising carbon dioxide levels in the global atmosphere. Newsom is obsessed with NetZero. His virtue signaling climate policies have ZERO impact on the atmosphere as they destroy energy affordability in terms of electricity ⚡️ and gasoline ⛽️ prices.
2022. Gavin Newsom brags about spending $54 billion on fighting climate change and calls conservative governors stupid for not doing the same. Meanwhile his state didn’t have enough water or working fire trucks ready to fight the fires earlier this year.
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It's just not fair to provide millions in free aid to undocumented immigrants while I can't get grants for my kids' college tuition because we are $1k above the income threshold while also paying $1,200 a month for health insurance. This should anger you. @CAgovernor
EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year. We went inside the system and exposed it all.
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California life insurance underwriters now asking how often you ride city transit in San Francisco.
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti… The SF Muni stabbing occurred around 1:41pm on a bus at 10th and Mission. Hard to avoid by using rules of thumb about where and when to ride.
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Too bad he doesn’t work this hard to improve California by undoing the damage caused by his leadership and his unaccountable, super-majority party.
Gavin Newsom TEARS INTO TRUMP outside the United Nations!
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Replying to @CAgovernor
Drier dries? Too bad you never prioritized all of the concrete, dollars, manpower, and time wasted in building the High Speed Rail Monuments of Failure for building dams and upgrading infrastructure to store water to improve California’s resiliency to its natural drought cycles.
𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲 A walk under one of the many, expensive, unused, eyesore monuments to the failures of California’s Democratic Party. These giant structures dotting the Central Valley are adjacent to impoverished communities and will not be placed into service for at least ten years, if ever. Delayed by construction traffic controls, local residents have a front row seat as they watch California’s misguided, High Speed Rail (HSR) project kick up dust and spend $ billions 💰 and $ billions 💰 of taxpayer dollars on unused overpasses that cross above roads, canals, rivers, and railways as Central Valley farming communities are divided by the fenced off HSR route. This particular structure crosses the in-service Amtrak line just south of Wasco. The existing line has been carrying passengers between Bakersfield and Northern California since 1899 when originally placed into service by Sante Fe Railroad. Today, Amtrak connects Bakersfield to Sacramento on this line. It’s a three hour Amtrak ride from Bakersfield to Merced including stops in Wasco and Hanford. HSR will not stop in Wasco. However, Wasco Amtrak passengers now have to walk through an underground walkway below the new, unused HSR structure in Wasco to get from the parking lot to the shiny, new replacement Amtrak platform. The Wasco Amtrak platform was working fine but was newly constructed as a part of the HSR project. Since the Amtrak line and the HSR are nearly parallel at this location, the overpass shown in the video had to be enormous. How many $ billions 💰 of taxpayer dollars will be spent to transport people between Bakersfield and Merced a little bit faster than Amtrak’s current three hour service? There’s no justification for spending so much money for so little benefit, that might occur ten years from now, or more.
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Replying to @CAgovernor @UN
Did you mention Zen diagrams again during your remarks? California will endure but the extremely high energy prices you have been burdening the residents with, because of your obsession with NetZero, will not.
Replying to @CAgovernor
Moral authority would be focusing on energy affordability instead of discussing Zen (it’s Venn) diagrams during fake fly fishing interviews with CNN.
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